DEFINITIONS

Appurtenance shall mean any piece associated with the physical operation of the Stoughton Sewerage System.

ASTM shall mean the material standard of the American Society for Testing and Materials.

Authority shall mean the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.

Board shall mean the Board of Selectmen, acting as Sewer Commissioners, or their authorized agent.

Building Sewer shall mean the extension from the interior plumbing to the public sewer or other place of disposal. The building sewer extends from the foundation at the building to the property line.

CDF shall mean controlled density fill or flowable fill.

Concentric shall mean the relationship between two different circular, cylindrical sewer pipes, when one is exactly centered within the other.

DEP shall mean the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

Engineer shall mean any person who is licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to perform professional engineering services.

EPA shall mean the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Garage shall mean any structure or property where one or more motor vehicles are kept, stored, or serviced, including a public or private garage, carport, motor vehicle repair shop, paint shop, service station, lubritorium, car wash, gasoline station with grease pits or wash racks or areas, or any building used for similar purposes.

Infiltration shall mean the water entering a Sewerage System from the ground or a water body, including through such means as, defective building drains and sewers, pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manhole walls.

Inflow shall mean the discharge into a Sewerage System, including service connections, from such sources including, but not limited to: roof leaders, cellars, yards, and area drains, foundation drains, sump pumps, Cooling Water discharges, drains from springs, and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections from Storm Sewers and Combined Sewers, catch basins, storm water, surface runoff, or street wash water.

Lot shall mean an area of land in one ownership, with definite boundaries used, or available for use, as the site of one or more buildings.

MWRA Service Area shall mean the area consisting of the following political subdivisions: Arlington, Ashland, Bedford, Belmont, Boston, Braintree, Brookline, Burlington, Cambridge, Canton, Chelsea, Dedham, Everett, Framingham, the north sewer district of Hingham, Holbrook, Lexington, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Milton, Natick, Needham, Newton, Norwood, Quincy, Randolph, Reading, Revere, Somerville, Stoneham, Stoughton, Wakefield, Walpole, Waltham, Watertown, Wellesley, Westwood, Weymouth, Wilmington, Winchester, Winthrop, and Woburn.

M.G.L. shall mean Massachusetts General Law

Owner shall mean the person(s) holding fee simple title to a parcel, tract or lot of land, as shown by the record in the appropriate Land Registration Office, Registry of Deeds or Registry of Probate.

Paper Street shall mean any road, street or way not legally accepted as a public way by the Town of Stoughton.

Person shall mean an individual or two or more individuals, or trust, or a group or association of individuals, having a common or undivided interest in a tract of land including a partnership or corporation.

Plans shall mean approved contract drawings, Town standards, working drawings, Detail sheets or exact reproductions thereof, which show the location, character, dimensions and details of the work to be done.

Public Sewer shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and is controlled by the Board of Selectmen acting as Sewer Commissioners, and maintained by the Public Works Superintendent.

Recorded shall mean recorded in the Registry of Deeds of Norfolk County, except that, as affecting registered land, it shall mean filed with the Recorder of The Land Court. (Section 81-L of Chapter 41, M.G.L.).

Right-of-Way shall mean the area that has been laid out for travel purposes.

Sanitary Sewer shall mean a Sewer that carries Sanitary Sewage and/or Industrial Wastes.

Sewage shall mean the spent water of a community, which may be a combination of liquid and water-carried Wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and/or storm water that may be present.

Sewer shall mean a pipe or conduit that carries Sewage.

Sewer Use Discharge Permit shall mean the permit required or issued jointly by the Authority and a Municipality for the discharge of industrial waste.

Sewerage System shall mean any device, equipment or works used in the transportation, pumping, storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of Wastewater and Industrial Wastes.

Shall is mandatory; may is permissive.

Slope shall mean the inclination of a trench bottom or a trench sidewall, expressed as a ratio of vertical distance to the horizontal distance. For example, a 3:1 slope shall rise or fall 3’ vertical feet in a distance of 1’ horizontal foot.

Solid Waste shall mean any unwanted or discarded solid material, consisting of putrecible or nonputrescible solid waste material, including garbage and rubbish.

Storm Drain or Storm Sewer shall mean a pipe or conduit for conveying ground, storm, or surface waters, roof and surface runoff, uncontaminated Cooling Water, and non-contact industrial process waters.

Stoughton Code shall mean the 1983 Code of the Town of Stoughton.

Subgrade shall mean the plane at the bottom of the subbase.

Superintendent shall mean the Superintendent of Public Works of the Town of Stoughton, or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.

Surveyor shall mean any person who is registered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to perform professional land surveying services.

Town Engineer shall mean the Town Engineer of the Town of Stoughton, or his duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.